ESF Research Conferences

Welcome

D. Laforgia - Rector of the University of Salento
L. Nicastro - Assessore all'Ambiente Regione Puglia
B. Ciccarese -  Assessore Provincia di Lecce
B. Avril - European Science Foundation
G. Aloisio - CMCC EuroMediterranean Center for Climate Change
P. Lionello - Chair of the MedCLIVAR programme

Authors in attendance

I. Rivetti - Long-Term Evolution of the Mediterranean Water Column and Biological Response
F.O. Amore - Coccolithophores response to Nao-like millennial forcing: a time-space reconstruction over the last 30 Ka in the Thyrrhenian sea
M. Morellon - Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age from continental and marine records of the Iberian Peninsula
A. Schimmelmann - Paleoenvironmental transitions in the central Peloponnese: A sediment record from a former lake near Asea, Greece
A. Gogou - Reconstructions of climatic and productivity patterns in the NE Mediterranean Sea during the Holocene using biogeochemical proxies

Sala Donatello

(15 minutes each)

Session 1: Mediterranean climate: relevant and important scientific issues

H. Kontoyiannis - Influence of atmospheric circulation on turbulent air-sea heat fluxes over the Mediterranean Sea during winter: An overview
C. Gonzalez-Hidalgo - MOPREDAS, a new tool for subregional precipitation trend analyses of Spain
C. Kelley - The relative contributions of radiative forcing and internal climate variability to the late 20th century drying of the Mediterranean region
J. López-Parages - The ENSO influence on the Mediterranean rainfall. A multidecadal modulated relationship?
A. Mariotti - Decadal climate variability and drought in the Mediterranean region”
M. Zampieri - Recent temperature trend in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Eastern Mediterranean

Sala Raffaello

(15 minutes each)

Sala Leandro

(15 minutes each)

Session 3: Paleoclimatic evidence from the Mediterranean

F. Adloff - Upper ocean climate of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Holocene Insolation Maximum – a model study
S. Akcer On - High-Resolution Late Holocene Climatic Records of Lakes and Lagoons at Western Turkey
C. Alvarez Castro - Meteorological Database Over The Mediterranean Sea Through Old Royal Navy Logbooks
R. Grimm - Ocean biogeochemical modeling of scenarios leading to eastern Mediterranean sapropel formation during the early Holocene
A. Persoiu - The interplay between North Atlantic and Mediterranean climatic influences in Central Europe during the Holocene: a view from cave ice cores
A. Prendergast - A palaeoclimatic framework for the late Pleistocene human occupation of the North African Mediterranean: correlating marine and terrestrial proxies from the stable isotope analysis of molluscs

Authors in attendance

M. Reale - Characterization of cyclones producing intense precipitation events in the Mediterranean region
D.J. Brayshaw - Understanding the climatological structure of the Mediterranean winter-time storm track
D. Novotna - Phase-coherent oscillatory modes in solar/geomagnetic activity and climate variability
L. Scarascia - Links between Sea Level in the Northern Adriatic Sea and large scale patterns
G. Jordà - Atmospheric contribution to Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic sea level variability under different climate change scenarios
L. Cavicchia - Towards a long-term climatology of Medicanes”
L. Congedi - Assessing improvement of RCM with respect to GCM climate simulations over the Mediterranean region: mean monthly fields

Session 6: Modeling of the Mediterranean climate system

Convenors:
L. Li - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, FR
P. Ruti - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, IT

L. Li - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, FR
A review on recent efforts of the Mediterranean regional climate modeling

Authors in attendance

T. Agacayak - The effect of meteorological conditions on PM10 in Istanbul
J. Ciarlo - Investigating relationships between Oscillation Patterns around the Mediterranean and their influence on aerosol transport using a Regional Climate Model (RegCM4)
S. Becagli - A study of anthropic and natural sources of aerosol in central Mediterranean Sea by bulk PM10 and size-segregated aerosol chemistry
Y. Mamane - Characterization of Coarse and Fine Particles in Tel Aviv, Israel, during Dust Storm Episodes of Spring 2006
M.A. Ramos - Changes in Present and Future Circulation Types Frequency in Northwest Iberian Peninsula
I. Güttler - Modelling recent climate and climate change over the eastern Adriatic”
G. Maggiotto - Effects of climate change on UHI with focus on Mediterranean cities

16:30 - 18:00

Sala Donatello

(15 minutes each)

Session 3: Paleoclimatic evidence from the Mediterranean

H. Reade - North African Palaeoclimate over the last ~80 ka: Isotopic Analysis of Mammalian Tooth Enamel from Northeast Libya
S. Desprat - Holocene vegetation and marine environment variability in Central Mediterranean from a direct land-sea correlation
B. Martrat - Climate of relatively stable warm periods. A Mediterranean paleo-perspective
G. Orombelli - Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Italian Alps
M.A. Sicre - PaleoMex (Paleo-Mediterranean) Initiative
I. Unkel - StymphaCore – Reconstructing the Climate History of the Northern Peloponnesus, Greece

Sala Raffaello

(15 minutes each)

Session 4: Synoptic patterns: climatology and trends

J. Garcia-Serrano - Large-scale atmospheric response to eastern Mediterranean summer SST anomalies
A. Douguedroit - Main circulation types associated with weather regimes of significantly decreasing precipitation in the Mediterranean (1950 - 2000)

Followed by:

Session 6: Modeling of the Mediterranean climate system

Sala Leandro

(15 minutes each)

Session 5: Mediterranean Sea level

J. Sepic - Mediterranean sea level variability changes and projections at high frequencies (1-100 days)
L. Fenoglio-Marc - Water mass variation in the Mediterranean Sea and relation to climate change
M. Marcos- Changes in storm surges in southern Europe during the 21st century”
A. Shaw- Sea Level Reconstruction using Altimetry and Tide Gauges within the Mediterranean Basin
M. Said - Climatic change and sea level variations off Alexandria, Egypt

F. Dulac - CEA, FR
The chemistry-aerosol Mediterranean experiment (ChArMEx) initiative

Authors in attendance

G. Bertini - Forests and climate change. Recent evidences from the ICP-Forests intensive monitoring network in Italy
K. Cindric - Trends and variability in precipitation extremes along the eastern Adriatic
M. Krželj - Climatologic analysis of northern Adriatic Sea physical variations occurred in the recent period (1970-2007)
V. Muradyan - Studying the dynamics of the ecosystems of mountainous country applying multi spectral satellite images (ARMENIA)
S. Seubert - Ability of Synoptic Downscaling techniques for analysing precipitation extremes in the Mediterranean area
G. Vogt - Percentile-based extreme indices of precipitation in the Mediterranean area in a multi-model ensemble of global climate models

Session 8: The climate of the Mediterranean region in future climate projections

Convenors:
S. Planton - Meteo France, FR
J. Jacobeit - Augsburg University, DE

S. Planton - Meteo France, FR
Application of climate models for regional climate change projections in the Mediterranean area

V. Ducrocq - Meteo France, FR
HyMeX – an observation and modelling programme dedicated to the Mediterranean Water Cycle

Sala Donatello

(15 minutes each)

Session 7: Aerosols chemistry and climate

M. Gaetani - Summer Mediterranean SST impact on Saharan aerosols transport: seasonal modulation and related atmospheric circulation regimes
Di Sarra - Radiative forcing by Mediterranean aerosols in the infrared spectral range

Followed by:

Session 8: The climate of the Mediterranean region in future climate projections

Barrera-Escoda - Dynamical downscaling of climate change projections for Catalonia (NE Spain) during the 21st Century
M. Dubrovsky  - Projection of future climate in the Mediterranean based on multiple GCMs and stochastic weather generator
I. Bladè - Connections Between The Summer Nao And Drying In The Mediterranean Region

Sala Raffaello

(15 minutes each)

Sala Leandro

(15 minutes each)

Session 10: Extremes and impact of climate variability and change

Paxian - Dynamical downscaling of future climate change of extreme events in the Mediterranean area
J. Kysely - Precipitation extremes in regional climate model simulations estimated by the region-of-influence method
Di Filippo - Climate-change induced bioclimatic shifts in Italian beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests assessed through a tree-ring network crossing the Mediterranean-Temperate biomes
S. Mathbout - Study on climate change and its potential impacts on vegetation over last five decades in Syria
H. Rendell  - Extreme rainfall events: changing magnitudes, frequencies and impacts in the Mediterranean
P. Sousa  - Links between fire regimes in Iberia and large-scale meteorological variability
I. Tsanis  - Climate change induced trends on water availability in the Island of Crete, Greece
A.M. Ramos - Evolution of extreme temperatures over Portugal - recent changes and future scenarios

MC. Llasat - University of Barcelona, ES
Hydrometeorological Risks evolution in Catalonia (Spain): climate variability and vulnerability

Discussion Panel

Convenors:
V. Artale - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, IT

M. Gacic - Chair of the CIESM committee on Physics and Climate of the Ocean
An observational strategy for the Mediterranean Sea circulation and the MedSHIP programme

R. Molinari - International CLIVAR Project Office, UK
The future  CLIVAR and WCRP and its potential relation to the next version of MedCLIVAR

Lunch